THE

HISTORY

OF

THE CANAANITES, PHILISTINES,

AND JEWS :

ALSO, OF THE

ASSYRIAN AND BABYLONIAN

EMPIRES.

BY WILLIAM MAVOR, LL. D.

VICAR OF HURLEY IN BERKSHIRE, CHAPLAIN TO THE

EARL OF DUMFRIES,
AUTHOR OF THE BRITISH NEPOS, &c. &c.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS,

No. 71, St. Paul's Church-Yard ;

AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

TO THE RIGHT REVEREND

JOHN, LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY,

THIS VOLUME

OF

ANCIENT UNIVERSAL HISTORY,

IS,

WITH THE UTMOST RESPECT,

INSCRIBED,

BY

HIS LORDSHIP'S

MOST OBLIGED

AND VERY FAITHFUL HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE EDITOR.

CONTENTS.

OF VOL. II.

Page

HISTORY of Canaan

1

10

History of the Philistines

History of the Jews from Abraham to the Baby-

lonish Captivity

19

History of the Jews from the Babylonish Capti-

vity to the Destruction of Jerusalem by Ves-

pasian

179

History of the Assyrian Empire

320

History of the Babylonian Empire

329

N. B. The two next volumes contain the History of

Greece from the earliest periods, till its subjugation into a
Roman Province.